US Patent Issued to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION on June 17 for "Process for recovering titanium dioxide" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,380, issued on June 17, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia).

"Process for recovering titanium dioxide" was invented by Goutam Kumar Das (Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for recovering titanium dioxide from a titanium-bearing material, the process including the steps of: leaching the titanium-bearing material in a first leaching step at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature of 70 to 97deg C. with a first lixiviant to produce a first leach solution comprising undissolved first leach solids that include a titanium content and a first leach liquor, ...